Jean-Pierre Léaud
Date of Birth: 05 May 1944
Country: France
Biography: Jean-Pierre Léaud was born in Paris, Léaud made his debut as an actor at the age of 14 as Antoine Doinel, a semi-autobiographical character based on the life events of French film director François Truffaut, in The 400 Blows. Léaud starred in four more Truffaut films depicting the life of Doinel, spanning a period of 20 years. Léaud also acted in films by other influential directors, such as Jean-Luc Godard, Bernardo Bertolucci, Aki Kaurismäki and more recently Olivier Assayas. He appeared with Marlon Brando in the Bertolucci film Last Tango in Paris (although the two never met, since Léaud admired Brando so much that he was afraid to meet him).
Total Credits at Criticker: 59 (Actor)
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The tumultuous political landscape of Paris in 1968 is the backdrop as three young cineastes are drawn together through their passion for film. Matthew, an American exchange student, discovers in French twins Theo and Isabelle a relationship unlike anything he has ever experienced or will ever encounter again -- and he longs to be a part of it. (Fox Searchlight)
When a young street vendor with a grim home life meets a girl on her way to Paris, they forge an instant connection. He changes all the clocks in Taipei to French time; as he watches Francois Truffaut's Les 400 Coups, she has a strange encounter with its now-ageing star (Jean-Pierre Leaud). (imdb)
Antoine Doinel is a Parisian adolescent. His parents do not show much interest in him. He skips school to go to the movies and play with his friends. He discovers his mother has a lover (imdb)
A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.
Antoine Doinel joined the army but has just been discharged. The film tells his reunion with Christine Darbon (imdb)
The shooting of "Je vous presente Pamela" (may I introduce Pamela) begins. This is the story of an english married wife falling in love and running away with the father of her French husband (imdb)
Rene Vidal, a director in decline, decides to remake Louis Feuillade's silent serial "Les Vampires."... (imdb)
At the beginning of the 20th century, Claude Roc, a young middle-class Frenchman meets in Paris Ann Brown, a young Englishwoman. (imdb)
Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run. (imdb)
After fifteen years' service, Henri Boulanger is made redundant from his job. Shocked, he attempts suicide... (imdb)
Antoine Doinel is now 26. He married Christine, who teaches the violin. They will have a baby. In a new job, Antoine meets Kyoto, a Japanese woman, and falls in love with her. They have a love affair. Christine discovers it and Antoine leaves the house... (imdb)
Paul is young, just demobbed from national service in the French Army, and dishillusioned with civilian life... (imdb)
Lemmy Caution, an American private-eye, arrives in Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet.... (imdb)
It focuses on three twentysomething Parisians in a bizarre love triangle: Alexandre is a seemingly unemployed narcissist involved with both a live-in girlfriend and a Polish nurse whom he picked up at a café and with whom he begins a desultory affair.
A young Parisian woman begins a sordid affair with a middled-aged American businessman whom lays out ground rules that their clandestine relationship will be based only on sex. (imdb)
The Poet looks back over his life and work, recalling his inspirations and obsessions. (imdb)
A journalist, Paula Nelson, arrives in Atlantic City, France, to look for her missing ex-boyfriend Richard Politzer. Her enquiries soon reveal that he is dead, murdered by an unknown assassin. Suspecting that Richard may have been the victim of political intrigue, Paula allies herself with gun-toting gangsters, shady police operatives and a writer of detective fiction to try to uncover the truth...
Judge Francois Marcorelle finds himself drawn into a series of surprising events.
Jacques Laurent made pornographic films in the 1970's and '80's, but had put that aside for 20 years. His artistic ideas, born of the '60's counter-culture, had elevated the entire genre. (imdb)
Two dramatic stories. In an undeterminated past, a young cannibal (who killed his own father) is condemned to be torn to pieces by some wild beasts. In the second story, Julius, the young son of a post-war German industrialist, is on the way to lie down with his farm's pigs, because he doesn't like human relationships. (imdb)
Antoine Doinel is now more than thirty. He divorces from Christine. He is a proofreader, and is in love with Sabine, a record seller. Colette, his teenager love, is now a lawyer. She buys Antoine's first published autobiographical novel. They meet again in a station... (imdb)
A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism. (imdb)
Several internationally known directors contributed to this generally adept and compelling series of five brief vignettes on love and its many ramifications. (All Movie Guide)
A young man, Adrian, comes back to his father's house only to discover his father is living with a teenage drug addict. The two soon fall in love.
Rocha's denunciation of European colonialism in Africa (filmreference.com)
Lili, a pouty and voluptuous 14-year-old, is caravan camping with her family in Biarritz. She's self-aware and holds her own in a café conversation with a concert pianist she meets, but she has a wild streak and she's testing her powers over men, finding that she doesn't always control her moods or actions, and she's impatient with being a virgin... (imdb)
Antoine et Colette (1962) - Short Film
Antoine and Colette is the second film -- a short -- in François Truffaut's series about Antoine Doinel. Catches up with Antoine Doinel as a solitary 17-year-old who works at Phillips manufacturing LPs to support himself. He meets Colette, a high-school student, at a concert and falls in love for the first time. The film traces his awkward courtship of the icy Colette, who never reciprocates.
Using extended, extreme close-ups that visually isolate the characters from their environment and also serve to reinforce their intimate, yet emotionally dissociated encounters, the film illustrates the ambiguous and indeterminate structure of Paul and Markus' lives as they struggle to reconcile with an idle intellectualism that has replaced their once determined, youthful idealism. (Acquarello - Strictly Film School)
Out 1 is about two different theater troupes trying to put on plays by Aeschylus. As the film continues these characters and a few others begin to cross paths and interact.
How do we learn? What do we know? Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the path to revolution. (imdb)
A romantic musical directed by Pupi Avati, best known for directing "The House With the Laughing Windows" in 1976.
Hsiao-Kang, a Taiwanese film director, travels to the Louvre in Paris, France, to shoot a film that explores the Salomé myth. (imdb)
Billy the Kid (Jean-Pierre Leaud), is both ruthless and bumbling in this impressionistic French-made western. Ruthless, in that he tracks down a witness to a robbery and kills him in cold blood. Bumbling, in that he literally stumbles over things throughout the film. He is also lucky, one might add, as instead of exacting revenge as she had planned, the bereaved girlfriend of a man he has shot walks off into the fabled sunset with Billy. (the auteurs)
An allegory about Brazil's history and the struggle for power since the 1930 Revolution until the advent of the TV. (imdb)
The story of the University of Brasília, since it was only a project in Darcy Ribeiro's head until the fateful events in August 1968 when its campus was invaded by the police, during the military dictatorship, thus putting an end to its independence. (imdb)
A rather condensed documentary about the friendship that developed between Godard and Truffaut, their years at Cahiers du Cinema and influence on the French New Wave, the history of their films and their relationship with Jean-Pierre Léaud, and ultimately, their eventual (and eventful) falling-out.
Jojo has been living for a while in a room under the roof of a block of flats in Pigalle. He has chosen to leave home since he realized his stepmother has hated him from day one. Among his many neighbors in the house is the gorgeous Jenny Dorr, a nightclub dancer,whose lover he dreams of becoming. (imdb)
A fast-paced comedy about a young Belgian car nut and hairdresser's apprentice, his girlfriend, and their legal and illegal attempts to get a Porsche under him for his nearing debut race. (imdb)
The title of the François Lunel film is the Buddhist proverb concluding by: "all is but illusion". His movie draws the Tsai Ming-Liang's face during the shooting of his movie Visage, which --itself-- is also a movie within a movie. (imdb)
Daniel needs some money to buy a duffle coat that is in fashion, so he agrees to work for a photographer by dressing up as Santa Claus. He discovers that it is much easier to meet girls when he is in his costume. (imdb)
François Truffaut, une autobiographie (2004) - TV Movie
Truffaut kept everything, from notes made on bits of paper to the numerous drafts of each of his scripts, and photographs of those dear to him. This «autobiography» sets out to highlight the director's recurrent themes, as they appear in film after film: childhood, apprenticeship, the conflictual relationships between men and women, death. The film leaves commentary to those, including a number of figures, who knew him well, in his work, in his life and for whom he was a source of admiration.
Camille was sixteen years old when she met Eric. They fell madly in love and had a daughter. 25 years later: Eric is leaving Camille for a younger woman. That's New Year's Eve, and Camille suddenly finds herself back in her past. She is sixteen again and has returned to her parents, her girlfriends, her childhood... and Eric. (quinzaine-realisateurs.com)
Dutch woman Margaretha Geertruida Zelle, better known during World War I as Mata Hari, is both an exotic Javanese dancer and a mysterious German spy. One night, after a performance, Mata Hari learns that her next assignment is to attend a society party, where she will meet French Captain François Lasalle. He will be carrying an attaché case containing classified secret documents. She is to seduce Lasalle and lure him back to her apartment, so that the vital documents can be stolen.
An eccentric portrait of actress Jane Birkin and her life, loves, and career.
August 1715. After going for a walk, Louis XIV feels a pain in his leg. The next days, the king keeps fulfilling his duties and obligations, but his sleep is troubled and he has a serious fever. He barely eats and weakens increasingly. This is the start of the slow agony of the greatest king of France, surrounded by his relatives and doctors. (festival-cannes.com)
January 1966. In a Paris apartment, police discovered the corpse of Georges Figon, the man who broke the scandal of the Ben Barka affair & undermined Gaullist power. A year earlier, Figon is looking for a juicy blow. Close to the "middle" since his years in prison, he was given a large mission: to produce a documentary about decolonization, written by Marguerite Duras and directed by Georges Franju, with the help of the famous Moroccan opponent Mehdi Ben Barka, hired as a historical consultant.
Lila and Mo meet at a bus stop. Lila has a paralyzing speech impediment. Mo is chatty and exuberant. Lila is preparing for her exams. Mo illegally races cars for a living. Opposites attract, and they fall in love. But Mo carries a secret burden. Written by Venice Days
An aging movie actor who is preparing to shoot a death scene finds himself visited by the spirit of a dead, long-ago lover (letterboxd.com).
A scientist finds the secret that predispose to the formation of the ideal couple. With this new alchemy, he achieves a pioneering experience: the creation of a perfect androgynous. (imdb)
The tale of a sad delinquent trying to overcome his miserable childhood to find success at love and life. (imdb)